6 Jun 2010

Kol Ishah

Kol Ishah in early and modern texts

Women’s Chaburah 06/06/10

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28 Mar 2010

Shabbat HaGadol 5770

Charoset – Mitzvah, Minhag or Memento?

GGS 27/03/10

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24 Jan 2010

Magic and things that go bump in the night

A look at manipulating creation and Ayin HaRa

Chaburah 24/01/10

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16 Dec 2009

Chanukah 5770

Straight or round arms? The historical, political and philosophical implications of a Menorah controversy

JLE 15/12/09

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Chanukah. 5770 by Rhb  
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17 Sep 2009

Rosh HaShanah 5770

The Teruah – rabbinic doubt or social engineering?

Chaburah 16/09/09

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Rosh. Hashanah. Shofar. Doubt. 5770 by Rhb  
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19 May 2009

Contraception

The development of halachic attitudes to contraception

LSJS 18/05/09

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Part 1 - Basic sources and early codification

Contraception. 1 by Rhb  
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Part 2- Modern approaches

Contraception. 2 by Rhb  
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7 Mar 2009

Birkat HaChammah - 8th April (Erev Pesach) 2009

The Blessing of the Sun

LSJS special 07/03/09

Source sheet for shiur

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Essay on Birkat HaChammah and liturgy

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Birkat. Hahammah by Rhb  
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3 Jul 2008

'Kosher' Bacon

‘Kosher’ bacon: where halachic and super-halachic considerations clash

Chaburah 03/07/08

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Kosher. Bacon  
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28 Jan 2008

Shemittah

Understanding Shemittah today part 2

Chaburah 24/01/08

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Shemittah. Pt2  
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11 Nov 2007

Shemittah

Understanding Shemittah today part 1

Chaburah 08/11/07

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Shemittah. Pt2  
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Rabbi Harvey Belovski's Posterous

Rabbi of the Golders Green Synagogue in London, rabbinic mentor for University Jewish Chaplaincy, teaching fellow at LSJS, lecturer, writer, rabbinical advisor, trouble-maker, and post-graduate philosophy student.

Curious about anything interesting, but particularly enthusiastic about unusual Torah thinkers, especially 19th- and early 20th-century Polish Chassidic leaders, notably the Rebbes of Przysucha, Kock, Izbica-Radzin and Sochaczew.

Trying hard to juggle being a husband, father, rabbi, teacher, iconoclast and independent thinker. Succeeding some of the time.

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